Google is being book friendly. Letting book content go through their system so that people searching topics will have books come up when they’re looking for related words or topics.
Publishers Lunch had quite a bit to say about it today. Especially in relation to what’s going on at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Apparently co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are holding a press conference there about it tomorrow afternoon.
“The message Google is presenting here in Germany (and in general) to publishers is that they now welcome submissions from any companies that wish to participate. Their site offers detailed information on how to submit materials (they still want printed books to scan on their own, though at some later point they may accept electronic files) and how the program works.
Current participants–which include the likes of Penguin, Wiley, Hyperion, Pearson, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge, Chicago, Oxford, Princeton, Scholastic, Springer, Houghton Mifflin, Thomson Delmar, Blackwell, and Perseus–were primarily solicited by Google.”
Hey Travelers’ Tales, lets do this! What do you think?